Lanyard assembly

ABSTRACT

A lanyard assembly includes a lanyard having an openable hook and an attachment member attachable to an article. The attachment member includes a longitudinal portion having adhesive thereon for attaching to the article such that the longitudinal portion is aligned longitudinally relative to the article. A connecting portion is disposed on the longitudinal portion, extends longitudinally relative to the article and is configured to support the article. The connecting portion is attached to the hook of the lanyard and the lanyard is configured to be placed around a person&#39;s neck to support the article in response to the attachment member being attached to the article.

FIELD OF THE INVENTION

The present invention relates to lanyards and article holders and, moreparticularly, to lanyard assemblies utilized for carrying variousarticles.

BACKGROUND ART

A person often has several objects to carry and not enough storagecapacity in his or her pockets to accommodate all such objects. Further,sometimes it is desirable for objects, e.g. telephones or personaldigital assistants, to be readily accessible without the necessity ofremoving it from a pocket or bag. Also, it is desirable for objects(e.g. telephones or personal digital assistants) to be securely attachedto a person to avoid such objects being lost.

Often lanyards are worn around one's neck or wrist to allow one to moreefficiently carry an object and have immediate access thereto along withminimizing the possibility of losing such objects. Lanyards often attachto objects via clips or clasps. Sometimes objects are not configured toallow attachment to such clips, clasps, or other carrying means.

Thus, a need exists for facilitating the transportation of objects vialanyards even when such objects are not configured for attachment tosuch lanyards.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

The present invention provides, in a first aspect, a lanyard assemblywhich includes a lanyard having an openable hook and an attachmentmember attachable to an article. The attachment member includes alongitudinal portion having an adhesive thereon for attaching thelongitudinal portion to the article such that the longitudinal portionis aligned longitudinally relative to the article. A connecting portionhas an opening configured to receive the hook and is disposed at an endof the longitudinal portion. The connecting portion extendslongitudinally relative to the article and is configured to support thearticle. The cord is also attached to the hook of the lanyard and thelanyard is configured to be placed around a person's neck to support thearticle in response to the attachment member being attached to thearticle.

The present invention provides, in a second aspect, a telephone assemblywhich includes an attachment member fixedly attached to a telephone withthe attachment member including a longitudinal portion and a connectingportion. The longitudinal portion has an adhesive thereon and theadhesive is attached to the telephone such that the longitudinal portionis aligned longitudinally relative to the telephone. The connectingportion is disposed on the longitudinal portion and extendslongitudinally relative to the telephone and is configured to supportthe telephone. The connecting portion is attachable to a hook of alanyard configured to be placed around a person's neck to support thetelephone in response to the attachment member being attached to thelanyard by attachment of the connection portion to the hook.

The present invention provides, in a third aspect, an article holderwhich includes an attachment member attachable to an article, and theattachment member includes a disk portion. The disk portion has anadhesive thereon for attaching the disk portion to an end of thearticle. A cord is attached to the disk portion and the cord extendslongitudinally relative to the article, extends away from the articleand is configured to support the article in response to the disk portionbeing attached to the article. The cord is attachable to a hook of alanyard configured to be placed around a person's neck to support thearticle in response to the attachment member being attached to thelanyard by attachment of the connecting portion to the hook.

The present invention provides, in a fourth aspect, a lanyard assemblywhich includes a lanyard having an openable hook and an attachmentmember attachable to an article with the attachment member including adisk portion. The disk portion has an adhesive thereon for attaching thedisk portion to an end of the article and a cord is attached to the diskportion. The cord extends longitudinally relative to the article,extends away from the article and is configured to support the article.The cord is attached to the hook of the lanyard with the lanyard beingconfigured to be placed around a person's neck to support the article.

The present invention provides, in a fifth aspect, a lanyard assemblywhich includes a lanyard having an openable hook. An attachment ring isattached to an article with the ring being configured to support thearticle. The ring is attachable to the hook of the lanyard with thelanyard being configured to be placed around a person's neck to supportthe article in response to the article being attached to the lanyard byattachment of the ring to the hook.

The present invention provides, in a sixth aspect, a lanyard having anopenable hook and a container having a top and a bottom. The top has aloop attached to the hook and the bottom is releasably attachable to thetop with the bottom being configured to hold an article.

The present invention provides, in a seventh aspect, a method forholding an article, which includes providing a user with a lanyard andan attachment member attachable to the lanyard. The attachment memberincludes an adhesive for attaching the attachment member to an article.The attachment member and the lanyard are configured to be attached toeach other to allow the article to be carried by a user in response tothe lanyard being worn by the user.

The present invention provides, in an eighth aspect, a method forholding an article, which includes providing a user with a lanyardhaving an openable hook and attaching the hook to a ring connected to acontainer for receiving an article.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

The subject matter which is regarded as the invention is particularlypointed out and distinctly claimed in the claims at the conclusion ofthe specification. The foregoing and other objects, features, andadvantages of the invention will be apparent from the following detaileddescription of preferred embodiments taken in conjunction with theaccompanying drawings in which:

FIG. 1 is a front elevational view of a lanyard having a hook connectedto an attachment member connected to a telephone, which is worn aroundthe neck of a user in accordance with the present invention;

FIG. 2 is an enlarged front elevational view of the attachment memberconnected to a portion of the telephone of FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is a side elevational view of the attachment member of FIG. 1;

FIG. 4 is a front elevational view of a lanyard assembly having a hookconnected to an attachment member and a lipstick case, which is wornaround the neck of a user in accordance with the present invention;

FIG. 5 is a side elevational view of the attachment member, lipstickcase and hook of FIG. 4;

FIG. 6 is a side elevational view of the attachment member of FIG. 4;

FIG. 7 is a front elevational view of another embodiment of a lipstickcase which has a connecting ring connected to a hook of a lanyardassembly in accordance with the present invention;

FIG. 8 is a front elevational view of a lanyard assembly having a hookconnected to a ring attached to a pen with the lanyard assembly wornaround the neck of a user in accordance with the present invention;

FIG. 9 is a side elevational view of an alternative necklace forconnection to the hook of the lanyard assembly of FIG. 1, FIG. 3, FIG.7, or FIG. 8 in accordance with the present invention;

FIG. 10 is another alternative necklace for connection to the hook ofthe lanyard assembly of FIG. 1, FIG. 3, FIG. 7, or FIG. 8 in accordancewith the present invention;

FIG. 11 is a front elevational view of another embodiment of a lanyardassembly which has communication wires threaded through hollow portionsof such lanyard assembly in accordance with the present invention;

FIG. 12 is an enlarged front elevational view of another embodiment ofan attachment member connected to a telephone;

FIG. 13 is a side elevational view of the attachment member of FIG. 12;

FIG. 14 is a front elevational view of another embodiment of a lanyardassembly having a hook connected to a sleeve for receiving an electronicdevice;

FIG. 15 is a front enlarged view of the assembly of FIG. 14;

FIG. 16 is a front elevational view of a further embodiment of a lanyardassembly having a hook connected to a wallet;

FIG. 17 is a front elevational view of an enlarged portion of FIG. 16;

FIG. 18 is a rear elevational view of the assembly of FIG. 16;

FIG. 19 is an enlarged view of a portion of the assembly of FIG. 18; and

FIG. 20 is a top elevational view of the wallet of FIG. 16.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT

In accordance with the principles of the present invention, a lanyardassembly is provided. In an exemplary embodiment depicted in FIG. 1, alanyard assembly 10 includes a lanyard 15, which includes a necklace 20and a hook 30. Attachment member 40 is connectable to hook 30.

Attachment member 40 may be attached to a telephone 50 to allowtelephone 50 to be carried by a user 60. As depicted in FIGS. 2-3,attachment member 40 may include an adhesive 70 to allow attachmentmember 40 to be attached to telephone 50. For example, adhesive 70 maybe a strip having a cover (not shown) for maintaining adhesive 70 in ausable condition, which may be removed when it is desired to attachattachment member 40 to telephone 50. Attachment member 40 could bedistributed to consumers with lanyard 15 thereby allowing a consumer toattach attachment member 40 to a telephone or other objects of choicealready in the consumer's possession. For example, such objects couldinclude a passport, identification card, personal digital assistant, orany other object which it is desired to retain securely on a person'sbody while still being readily accessible to the person. Accordingly,adhesive 70 may be strong enough to connect the attachment member 40 tosuch objects.

Attachment member 40 may also include a longitudinal body portion 80aligned longitudinally relative to telephone 50 in response toattachment member 40 being attached to telephone 50. A cord receivingportion 90 may be disposed on longitudinal portion 80. For example, cordreceiving portion 90 may be integral to longitudinal portion 80 or theymay be attached to one another. Further, cord receiving portion 90 maybe located at one end of longitudinal portion 80. A connecting portion,e.g., a cord 100, may be attached to cord receiving portion 90. Forexample, cord 100 may be connected to an end of cord receiving portion90 such that cord 100 extends longitudinally relative to longitudinalportion 80. Also, cord 100 may extend longitudinally relative totelephone 50 in response to attachment member 40 being attached totelephone 50. Cord receiving portion 90 may include a cavity (not shown)to receive one or more ends of cord 100 and to hold cord 100 therein. Inanother example not depicted, attachment member 40 could be integral totelephone 50.

Attachment member 40 may be attached to a backside of telephone 50 neara bottom end 51 of telephone 50 or closer to bottom end 51 than a topend 52 thereof. Such positioning of attachment member 40 facilitates useof telephone 50. In particular, by attaching attachment member 40 nearbottom end 51, the user may hold telephone 50 to the user's ear withoutassembly 10 interfering with the user's use of telephone 50. Forexample, lanyard assembly 10 hangs below the telephone and does notinterfere with the user's hand or otherwise get in the user's way whenattachment member 40 is attached to telephone 50 at a location closer tobottom end 51 than top end 52.

Cord 100 may be configured (e.g., shaped, dimensioned, and being ofsufficient strength) to allow connection thereof to hook 30 and to allowcord 100 to support telephone 50 or other articles which a person maywant to suspend from lanyard 15. Cord 100 may be flexible to facilitatemanipulation of an article attached thereto (e.g., via attachment member40) relative to hook 30. For example, if attachment member 40 isattached to telephone 50 and it is desired for the person to use (e.g.,raise and talk into) telephone 50 while lanyard 15 is around his or herneck, the flexible nature of cord 50 allows telephone 50 to be rotatedor moved in a variety of ways relative to hook 30 which may not bepossible if cord 100 was rigid. Cord 100 may be formed of nylon, forexample. Alternatively, cord 100 could be formed rigidly orsemi-rigidly. Also, hook 30 may include an openable clasp 32 to allowattachment of cord 100 to hook 30, as depicted in FIG. 1.

Lanyard 15 may also include a lanyard-restraining member 25 to preventmovement of hook 30 along lanyard 15. Lanyard-restraining member 25 mayinclude an aperture for receiving lanyard 15 therein to allowrestraining-member 25 to be moved along lanyard 15 and to restrain hook30 at a particular location along lanyard 15. As depicted in FIG. 1,restraining member 25 may be spherical, but it could be formed of any ofvarious shapes having an aperture therethrough to allow it to be movedalong lanyard 15 such that it may restrain movement of hook 30 alonglanyard 15.

In another embodiment, lanyard assembly 10 may be attached to a diskattachment member 200 as depicted in FIGS. 4-6. Disk attachment member200 may include disk 210 having an adhesive 220 attached thereto. Forexample, adhesive 220 may have substantially the same shape as disk 210except for having a smaller diameter. A cover (not shown) formaintaining adhesive 220 in a usable condition may be attached toadhesive 220 and may be removed when it is desired to attach a diskattachment member 200 to an object which a user desires to attach tohook 30 of lanyard assembly 10. For example, disk attachment member 200may be attached to a cylindrical lipstick case or holder 230 to allow auser to carry lipstick holder 230 using lanyard assembly 10. Also, diskattachment member 200 may be attached to a variety of objects,preferably those having a cylindrical shape. A cord 240 may be attachedto disk 210 and may extend from disk 210 substantially perpendicularthereto. Cord 240 serves to attach lipstick holder 230 to hook 30 oflanyard assembly 10.

Cord 240 may be flexible to facilitate manipulation of an articleattached thereto relative to hook 30. For example, if disk attachmentmember 200 is attached to lipstick holder 230, a top 232 of lipstickholder 230 may be separated from a bottom 234. In particular, lipstickholder 230 may be moved such that it is horizontal (i.e., rotated 90degrees relative to its depiction in FIG. 6). The flexible nature ofcord 240 may facilitate such rotation. Further, cord 240 may be formedsuch that it supports a weight of lipstick holder 230 or any other suchobjects that one would desire to suspend from lanyard assembly 10. Also,lipstick or another article desired to be carried may be attached to, orheld by, either top 232 or bottom 234.

In a further embodiment, lanyard assembly 10 may be attached to a secondlipstick holder 300 having an attachment member 310 attached thereto, asdepicted in FIG. 7. More specifically, lipstick holder 300 may include atop portion 320 and a bottom portion 330. Top portion 320 may have oneor more apertures 340 for receiving one or more ends of connector 310 toattach connector 310 to top portion 320. Connector 310 may be rigid andshaped to connect to top portion 320 and hook 30 as depicted in FIG. 7.For example, connector 310 may be triangular shaped as depicted in FIG.7 or it could be ring-shaped (not shown).

Bottom portion 330 may be separated from top portion 320 to allow a userto access a lipstick held in bottom portion 330. In another example,bottom portion 330 may hold items other than lipstick for use by theuser. In a further example, top portion 320 may hold lipstick or otheritems desired by the user.

In yet a further embodiment, lanyard assembly 10 may be attached to apen 400 having an attachment member or connector 410 attached thereto,as depicted in FIG. 8. More specifically, pen 400 may include a topportion 420 and a bottom portion 430. Top portion 420 may have one ormore apertures 440 for receiving one or more ends of connector 410 toattach connector 410 to top portion 420. Connector 410 may be rigid andshaped to connect to top portion 420 and hook 30 as depicted in FIG. 8.For example, connector 410 may be ring-shaped as depicted in FIG. 8 orit could be triangular shaped (not shown) or any of various othershapes. Further, connector 410 could be flexible as described above forconnector 240 and it could be made of nylon, for example. Moreover,connector 410 could be attached to top portion 420 via adhesive or othermeans, instead of being received in apertures of top portion 420. Also,bottom portion 430 may be separated from top portion 420 to allow a userto access a stylus (not shown) for writing held in bottom portion 430.In another example, the stylus may be held in top portion 420.

Lanyard 15 (e.g., necklace 20) is depicted in the figures as a simplecord, and such cord may be flexible and/or resilient for example.Alternatively, lanyard 15 may include an ornamental jewelry chain, suchas jewelry chain necklaces 16 and 17 shown in FIGS. 9-10 or a string ofbeads. For example, jewelry chain necklace 16 could be a jewelry chainmade of gold, silver or other precious metal or of a mock-tortoise-shellor mock-ivory plastic material. Also, lanyard 15 could be a flexibleand/or resilient cord having beads (not shown) strung along it. Further,lanyard 15 could be a ribbon. Moreover, lanyard 15 could have ends whichare attachable to each other such as by a knot to allow lanyard 15 to beopened, e.g., to allow lanyard 15 to be tied around a user's neck.

In another embodiment depicted in FIG. 11, a lanyard assembly 500includes a lanyard 515, similar to lanyard assembly 10. Also, lanyard515 includes a necklace 520 and a hook 530. Lanyard 515 may include ahollow portion (not shown) for receiving communication wires, forexample. As depicted in FIG. 11, telephone 550 may be connected to hook530 via an attachment member 540 similar or identical to attachmentmember 40. Also, telephone 550 may be connected to an earphone wire 560which may pass through lanyard 515 and may be connected to a earphone565 held in a user's ear. Also, a microphone wire 570 may pass throughlanyard 515 and a microphone 575 may be attached to lanyard 515 at aposition to allow a user to speak into microphone 575. For example, theuse of microphone 575 and earphone 565 may allow the user to utilizetelephone 550 while telephone 550 is suspended from hook 530 as depictedin FIG. 11. Further, the communication wires (e.g., earphone wire 560 ormicrophone wire 570) may be connected to devices other than telephone550, e.g. a personal digital assistant, pager, or other handheldelectronic device.

In a further embodiment, FIGS. 12-13 depict an attachment member 600which may be substituted for attachment member 40 or attachment member540 to allow a telephone (e.g., telephone 50) to be connected to alanyard assembly (e.g., lanyard assembly 10 or lanyard assembly 500).Attachment 600 may include a longitudinal portion 610 and a connectingportion, e.g., a rounded portion 620. Longitudinal portion 610 androunded portion 620 may be formed of a same material, may be integral toone another, and may have a substantially same thickness as bestdepicted in FIG. 13. In another example, longitudinal portion 610 androunded portion 620 may be formed of different thicknesses and/or beformed of different materials connected to one another. Longitudinalportion 610 may include an adhesive or an adhesive pad 630 attached toattachment member 600 and attachable to telephone 50, for example.Adhesive pad 670 may have a removable cover (not shown) which may beremoved to expose adhesive pad 670 and allow attachment member 600 to beattached to telephone 50 or another object which it is desired to retainsecurely on a person's body utilizing a lanyard assembly (e.g., lanyardassembly 10 or lanyard assembly 500). As would be evident from thefigures, rounded portion 620 includes an opening 625 to allow attachmentmember 600 to be attached to a hook (e.g. hook 30). Rounded portion 620may also be semi-rigid or rigid.

In yet a further embodiment, FIGS. 14-15 depict a sleeve 700 having acavity 705 for receiving an electronic device 710 (e.g., a digital musicplayer such as an IPOD type player) attached to a lanyard assembly(e.g., lanyard assembly 10 or lanyard assembly 500). Sleeve 700 mayinclude a top opening 707 for receiving electronic device 710 and sideopenings 720 aligned to correspond with displays of electronic device710, such as a play list or a means for entering information into, orprogramming, the device.

In another un-illustrated embodiment, sleeve 700 could be connected to alanyard assembly (not shown) which has one or more headphone wiresthreaded through one or more cavities thereof, similar to headphone wire560 in lanyard assembly 500 depicted in FIG. 11.

In a further embodiment depicted in FIGS. 16-20, a wallet 800 attachedto a lanyard assembly (e.g., lanyard assembly 10 or lanyard assembly500) is configured to receive a credit card 810, money, small documents,or other items normally carried in a conventional wallet or purse.Wallet 800 may include a pocket 820 for receiving credit cards 810 orother small items. As depicted in FIG. 16, pocket 820 may be less thanthe longitudinal height of wallet 800. For example, pocket 820 may beabout half the height of wallet 800, or it may be any other heightrelative thereto. Wallet 800 also includes a second pocket 840 which mayreceive credit cards, money, or any other documents normally carried ina conventional wallet as described for pocket 820. Further, on anopposite side of the wallet 800, an opening 830 (e.g., a circularopening) may be present to allow a user to access second pocket 840therethrough. Also, pocket 820 may be defined by a first outer layer 850and an inner layer 860, while second pocket 820 may be defined by innerlayer 860 and a second outer layer 870. Further, inner layer 860 mayinclude an aperture configured to receive hook 30 to connect wallet 800thereto.

Sleeve 700 and wallet 800 may be formed of a textile, plastic, or othermaterial configured to attach to hook 30 and hold an object such aselectronic device 710 or credit card 810. Sleeve 700 and/or wallet 800may be rigid, flexible, or semi-rigid.

Also, in an embodiment not depicted, lanyard 15 or lanyard 515 couldinclude a ring or loop, instead of hook 30 or hook 530. Such ring orloop (not shown) may be attached to a hook (not shown) previouslyattached to articles (e.g., attachment members, pens, lipstick holders,electronic devices, wallets) desired to be attached to lanyard 15. Inthis manner, a hook attached to such articles may be opened to attachsuch articles to a lanyard instead of hooks attached to such lanyardsbeing opened for attachment to the articles.

Although preferred embodiments have been depicted and described indetail herein, it will be apparent to those skilled in the relevant artthat various modifications, additions, substitutions and the like can hemade without departing from the spirit of the invention and these aretherefore considered to be within the scope of the invention as definedin the following claims.

1. A lanyard assembly, the assembly comprising: a lanyard having anopenable hook; and an attachment member attachable to an article, saidattachment member comprising: a longitudinal portion having an adhesivethereon for attaching said longitudinal portion to the article such thatsaid longitudinal portion is aligned longitudinally relative to thearticle; a connecting portion having an opening configured to receivesaid hook; said connecting portion disposed at an end of saidlongitudinal portion, said connecting portion extending longitudinallyrelative to the article and configured to support the article; saidconnecting portion attached to said hook of said lanyard, said lanyardconfigured to be placed around a person's neck to support the article,in response to said attachment member being attached to the article. 2.The assembly of claim 1 further comprising a cord receiving portiondisposed on said longitudinal portion.
 3. The assembly of claim 2wherein said connecting portion comprises a cord attached to said cordreceiving portion.
 4. The assembly of claim 3 wherein said cordcomprises a flexible cord.
 5. The assembly of claim 1 further comprisinga telephone wherein said attachment member is attached to said telephonecloser to a bottom end of said telephone than to a top end of saidtelephone.
 6. The assembly of claim 1 further comprising anidentification card wherein said attachment member is attached to saidcard.
 7. The assembly of claim 1 further comprising a handheldelectronic device wherein said attachment member is attached to saidhandheld electronic device.
 8. The assembly of claim 1 wherein saidlanyard further comprises a hollow for receiving communication wires. 9.The assembly of claim 8 further comprising a microphone wire and an earphone wire received in said hollow, said microphone wire and said earphone wire being connectable to a telephone, when the telephone isattached to said attachment member.
 10. A telephone assembly, theassembly comprising: an attachment member fixedly attached to atelephone, said attachment member comprising a longitudinal portion anda connecting portion; said longitudinal portion having an adhesivethereon, said adhesive attached to said telephone such that saidlongitudinal portion is aligned longitudinally relative to saidtelephone; said connecting portion disposed at an end of saidlongitudinal portion; said connecting portion extending longitudinallyrelative to said telephone and configured to support said telephone; andsaid connecting portion attachable to a hook of a lanyard configured tobe placed around a person's neck to support said telephone in responseto said attachment member being attached to the lanyard by attachment ofsaid connecting portion to the hook.
 11. The assembly of claim 10further comprising a cord receiving portion disposed on saidlongitudinal portion.
 12. The assembly of claim 11 wherein saidconnecting portion comprising a cord attached to a longitudinal end ofsaid cord receiving portion,
 13. The assembly of claim 12 wherein saidcord comprises a flexible cord.
 14. The assembly of claim 10 furthercomprising a lanyard having a hook, said hook attached to saidconnecting portion.
 15. The assembly of claim 14 wherein said lanyardcomprises a hollow for receiving communication wires, and furthercomprising at least one communication wire having a first end extendingfrom a first end of said hollow and connecting to said telephone, andsaid at least one communication wire having a second end extending froma second end of said hollow to allow communication between a user andsaid telephone.
 16. An article holder, the holder comprising: anattachment member attachable to an article, said attachment membercomprising a disk portion; said disk portion having an adhesive thereonfor attaching said disk portion to an end of the article; a cordattached to said disk portion, said cord extending longitudinallyrelative to the article, extending away from the article and configuredto support the article in response to said disk portion being attachedto the article; and said cord attachable to a hook of a lanyardconfigured to be placed around a person's neck to support the article inresponse to said attachment member being attached to the lanyard byattachment of said cord to the hook.
 17. The holder of claim 16 furthercomprising a lanyard having a hook, said hook attached to said cord. 18.The holder of claim 16 wherein the article comprises a lipstick holder.19. The holder of claim 16 wherein said cord is attached to a center ofsaid disk portion.
 20. A lanyard assembly, the assembly comprising: alanyard having an openable hook; an attachment member attachable to anarticle, said attachment member comprising a disk portion; said diskportion having an adhesive thereon for attaching said disk portion to anend of the article; a cord attached to said disk portion, said cordextending longitudinally relative to the article, extending away fromthe article and configured to support the article; and said cordattached to the hook of the lanyard, the lanyard configured to be placedaround a person's neck to support the article.
 21. The assembly of claim20 wherein the article comprises a lipstick holder.
 22. The assembly ofclaim 20 wherein said cord is attached to a center of said disk portion.23. The assembly of claim 20 wherein the article comprises a cylindricalcontainer.
 24. A lanyard assembly, the assembly comprising: a lanyardhaving an openable hook; and an attachment ring attached to an article,said ring configured to support the article; and said ring attached tosaid hook of said lanyard, wherein said lanyard is configured to beplaced around a person's neck to support said article in response tosaid article being attached to said lanyard by attachment of said ringto said hook.
 25. The assembly of claim 24 wherein said articlecomprises a lipstick holder.
 26. The assembly of claim 24 wherein saidarticle comprises a writing instrument.
 27. The assembly of claim 24wherein said article comprises a cylindrical container.
 28. A lanyardassembly, the assembly comprising: a lanyard having an openable hook;and a container having a top and a bottom, said top having a loopattached to the hook, said bottom being releasably attachable to saidtop, said bottom configured to hold an article.
 29. The assembly ofclaim 28 wherein said article comprises a lipstick holder.
 30. Theassembly of claim 28 wherein said article comprises a writinginstrument.
 31. The assembly of claim 28 wherein article comprises acylindrical container.
 32. A method for holding an article, the methodcomprising: providing a user with a lanyard and an attachment memberattachable to the lanyard; the attachment member including an adhesivefor attaching the attachment member to an article; and the attachmentmember and the lanyard configured to be attached to each other to allowthe article to be carried by a user in response to the lanyard beingworn by the user.
 33. The method of claim 32 wherein the providing theattachment member and the lanyard to the user comprises providing thelanyard and the attachment member when the attachment member isunattached to the article.
 34. The method of claim 32 further comprisingconnecting the attachment member to a hook of the lanyard and attachingthe adhesive to a telephone to allow the telephone to be carried by theuser.
 35. The method of claim 32 further comprising connecting theattachment member to a hook of the lanyard and attaching the adhesive toa lipstick to allow the lipstick to be carried by the user.
 36. Themethod of claim 32 further comprising connecting the attachment memberto a hook of the lanyard and attaching the adhesive to a handheldelectronic device to allow the device to be carried by the user.
 37. Themethod of claim 32 further comprising connecting the attachment memberto a hook of the lanyard and attaching the adhesive to an identificationcard to allow the device to be carried by the user.
 38. The method ofclaim 32 wherein the attachment member comprises a longitudinal portionand a cord receiving portion, the longitudinal portion having theadhesive thereon, the adhesive attachable to the article such that thelongitudinal portion is aligned longitudinally relative to the article,and the cord receiving portion disposed on said longitudinal portion.39. The method of claim 38 further comprising attaching a cord to alongitudinal end of the cord receiving portion, the cord extendinglongitudinally relative to the article and configured to support thearticle.
 40. The method of claim 39 further comprising attaching thecord to a hook of the lanyard and placing the lanyard around the user'sneck to support the article.
 41. The method of claim 32 wherein theattachment member comprises a disk portion having an adhesive thereonfor attaching the disk portion to an end of the article.
 42. A methodfor holding an article, the method comprising: providing a user with alanyard having an openable hook; and attaching the hook to a ringconnected to a container for receiving an article.
 43. The method ofclaim 42 wherein the container comprises a lipstick holder.
 44. Themethod of claim 42 wherein the article comprises a writing instrument.45. A lanyard assembly, the assembly comprising: a lanyard having anopenable hook; an object holder connected to said hook, said holdercomprising at least one cavity for receiving an object; said objectholder comprising a top side having a top opening, said top openingconfigured to allow the object to pass into said cavity; and said objectholder having a lateral side, said lateral side having at least oneopening configured to allow access to said at least one cavity.
 46. Theassembly of claim 45 further comprising a first outer layer, an innerlayer, and a second outer layer, and wherein said inner layer comprisesan opening connectable to said hook.
 47. The assembly of claim 45further comprising an outer layer and an inner layer and wherein said atleast one cavity is defined by said outer layer and said inner layer.48. A method of holding an article, the method comprising: providing auser with a lanyard having an openable hook; and attaching an objectholder to the hook, the object holder comprising at least one cavity forreceiving an object, a top side having an opening configured to allowthe object to pass into the at least one cavity, and a lateral sidehaving at least a second opening configured to allow access to theobject in the at least one cavity.
 49. The method of claim 48 whereinthe object holder comprises a first outer layer, an inner layer, and asecond outer layer and wherein the hook connects to an opening in theinner layer of the object holder.
 50. The method of claim 48 wherein theobject holder comprises an outer layer and an inner layer and whereinthe at least one cavity is defined by the outer layer and the innerlayer.
 51. The method of claim 48 further comprising inserting a musicplayer into the at least one cavity.
 52. The method of claim 48 furthercomprising inserting at least of money and a credit card into the atleast one cavity.
 53. The method of claim 45 further comprising a musicplayer received in said at least one cavity.